POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 156

• June 27, 2017 21:14:50 Annick Rodriguez

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  had some gentlemanly instincts. Thus on a walk if no one

  wished to speak to him & it was unlikely they did.- he was

  quite satisfied to walk by himself. He was very consciencious

  He came with another not a bad kind broad minded, but

  he was out when the French escaped & soon left. Consul

  went to the front in the summer 1916 followed by a new sort.

  He was always in the camp, always nosing about. On

  walks wanted  ...  to be talked to. Always [insert] seemed to [/insert] wanted

  to be friendly. But he parted to find the perpetrators of

  the tunnel & he left. He was followed by a person

  hideously uglu very sluvenly , all body, short legs did not

  see him long enough to form an opinion on him. At

  any rate he was not always round the camp.

  As to parcels- our parcels were fetched from the station by

  the Guard in a handcart & were issued as a rule

  promptly. For this a charge of 10 pps & 5 pps for a very little

  one such as a box of cigarettes was made. This went as

  backscheesh to the guard. This imposition was knocked

  on the head  in the summer of 1916. The contents were compley

  examined. One was not allowed to have the paper or the

  box. All books were taken away & sent to Osnabrack to

  be censored - this book as a rule 4 weeks- but in some

  cases much longer. It was however possible to evade a

  certain amount of searching & as a rule the Germans

  in this office were reasonable . I missed quite a lot of

  parcels from England- but whether they were looted in

  Germany I dont know. Occasionally a parcel would

  arrive damaged. This was shown with a X on the list

  put up. Then you would be lucky if you received half

  the original contents. In the autumn of 16 new regulations

• June 26, 2017 23:02:33 Annick Rodriguez

                                      70.

  had some gentlemanly instincts. Thus on a walk if no one

  wished to speak to him & it was 

  
  

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